Help Scott: Aid a Father’s Struggle

Hi! My name is Sam, and foremost, thank you for taking the time to care to help others in need, but this story isn’t about me.

A close family friend, someone who is a brother to me, Scott, is in immediate need of funds to stay afloat and provide for his family. Scott was let go from his job at the end of March from a food production warehouse due to raising concerns with supervisors over safety and health concerns on the floor. After being persistent in his concerns, rather than fix the issues in the warehouse, he was cited as breaking protocol and fired.

Scott is a hardworking, dedicated and loving father and started working at a fast food restaurant in the second week of April to support his family, the effect being a debilitating loss of monthly funds. After being let go from his job, Scott went into a depressive episode for two weeks, as he was already dealing with his wife’s infidelity at the time and attempting to work on the relationship.

After attempting to mend the relationship for months, things came to a head after a heated discussion with his wife on May 9th.

On May 10th his wife left the household, going to stay 6 hours away with her brother. She attempted to take their 5-year-old son, instead taking all of the child’s belongings leaving Scott and his mother (who assists with childcare and lives in the home but unable to work due to a physical disability and age) with inadequate clothing, not appropriate for weather, very few items, and not clean, as well as being aware of the fact there were no funds available for new clothing.

Scott and his wife also have a 7-month-old son who they adopted from another close family friend. When leaving the house she showed absolutely no interest in taking their younger son, didn’t collect a single item of his, nor mention taking him and since that day hasn’t shown any interest in seeing or talking to her younger son.

His wife also has all of the bills of their household in her name and manages them with their shared bank account.

Unbeknownst to Scott, (as he trusted his wife with managing the finances for them and their two kids) she was recklessly overspending their income, as well as both of their tax return and saving no money. She spent $1700 on Amazon and $1200 at Walmart in 6 days with very little to show for it besides excessive clothes and accessories for herself which are unable to be returned. Hundreds of dollars of clothes were hidden in the home from Scott and his mother.

The day before she left, on May 9th she received $1300 in food stamps on a singular EBT card under her name for the household of 5 people. On May 9th before the incident, she went food shopping and spent less than $100 on groceries. She’s now refusing to use any of the money for groceries for her two sons or Scott and his mother which are on the plan and who the money is intended to go to for food.

Showing extreme negligence towards the wellbeing of her two young children.

Scott is in the process of changing all of the bills like the mortgage, water/sewage, electricity, internet, car/homeowners insurance, and cell phone plan, but doesn’t have the ability to apply for food assistance with welfare until she calls and removes him from her plan as a beneficiary. She’s being uncooperative and spiteful and refusing to make that call as well as withholding more than $1000 on an EBT card intended to be used for the necessity of the family’s monthly food.

In a vengeful, harmful act against Scott, she went on the 15th of May and applied for emergency custody of her older son by lying on the application and making it seem like he’s in a dangerous situation, because she found out Scott had already gone on the 10th, to apply for regular custody, after their heated discussion which ultimately ended their marriage. Scott found out about the emergency custody request by her on the 17th when he went to pick up the documents and dates for his own normal custody request. He’s now filling out the proper documentation to refute her claim to emergency custody, and claim it for himself as she does not have proper shelter nor income for their son. She has no job at the moment, very little job or career experience and currently living with her brother, sister-in-law, their 3 children in a small home that’s in disrepair and already crowded more than 6 hours away from the family home.

All of these factors have caused him an immense amount of emotional distress and agony but he’s fighting as hard as he can to provide for his family and keep them safe.

He will do whatever he needs to, to provide for his family, and puts everything on his shoulders and deals with it without asking for help. So that's why I’m asking, and creating this go fund me to help him get back on his feet and through the rest of this month and next month. The $7,000 is going directly towards the rest of the bills for this month and covering the bills for next month so he has that time to save what income he has as well as look for a better paying job in the field he has experience in.

Anything donated will help and we greatly appreciate any and all, even $1,$5,$10 donations help and add up, please help me show my brother and his family it’s okay to ask for help and that there are wonderful, kindhearted people out there who are willing to help a family in need in a time of crisis.